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TIL In 1914 astronomers at the Royal Observatory made a careful study of the transit of Mercury in order to determine whether Mercury had any moons and essentially proved that the planet has no moon

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QJwJe TIL that hiccups are an inheritance from our amphibians ancestors: it used to help in the respiration process, allowing water to pass through our ancestors' gills. Now they serve no purposes.
v1EoB TIL Saffron is the most expensive food on earth, costing ~5,000 USD per pound. It is so expensive due to the fact that it has to be harvested manually, and takes between 50,000-75,000 flowers to produce just one pound of the spice.
bV9a TIL The word ‘jaguar’ is actually derived from the Native American word 'yaguar’ meaning “he who kills with one leap”
VgAZ TIL: There are only 22 countries the Brits haven’t invaded
X04lj TIL that the first car to achieve a land speed record of 62mph, (100kph), was a Belgian designed electric vehicle in 1899.